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20. The World and Offences. Various Meanings of World.
"Woe unto the world because of occasions of stumbling." [5946] The expression "cosmos," is used in itself and absolutely in the passage, "He was in the cosmos and the cosmos knew Him not," [5947] but it is used relatively and in respect of its connection with that of which it is the cosmos, in the words, "Lest you look up to the heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and all the cosmos of the heavens, you should stray and bow down to them and worship them." [5948] And the like you will find in the Book of Esther, spoken about her, when it is written, stripping off all her "cosmos." [5949] For the word "cosmos," simply, is not the same as the "cosmos" of heaven, or the "cosmos" of Esther; and this which we are now investigating is another. I think, then, that the world is not this compacted whole of heaven and earth according to the Divine Scriptures, but only the place which is round about the earth, and this is not to be conceived in respect of the whole earth, but only in respect of ours which is inhabited; for the true light "was in the world," that is, in the place which is around, conceived in relation to our part of the earth; "and the world knew Him not," [5950] that is, the men in the region round about, and perhaps also the powers that have an affinity to this place. For it is monstrous to understand by the world here the compacted whole formed of heaven and earth, and those in it; so that it could be said, that the sun and moon and the choir of the stars and the angels in all this world, did not know the true light, and, though ignorant of it, preserved the order which God had appointed for them.
[5946] Matt. xviii. 7.
[5947] John i. 10.
[5948] Deut. iv. 19.
[5949] Lomm., following Huet. refers to Esther (The addition to Esther, xiv. 2). But the word kosmos does not occur in this passage. See Judith x. 4; 1 Macc. ii. 11.
[5950] John i. 10.
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